Gold Investment Made Easy

A lump of pure gold is so simple,why pay one penny more than you should?

YOU MIGHT THINK it easy enough.

Buy gold. Hold it securely, and then sell it — at a time of your choosing — for full value.

Gold itself, after all, couldn't be simpler. Sitting at No.79 in the Periodic Table, it's a mere lump of metal, prized for its beauty and rarity, and used to store wealth for more than 5,000 years.

Yet buying and selling gold is rarely made easy for private investors. And it's almost never made cheap.

• Coins & bars you can hold in your hand — but only if you're willing to pay very high dealing, handling & shipping costs, plus high insurance or safety-deposit bills;
• Certificates and "pool" programs often charge more in annual storage fees than most mutual funds charge for active stock selection;
• Futures & options greatly increase your risk of short-term losses, and their hidden costs soon add up;
• Exchange-traded funds (gold ETFs) claim to trade like a stock, but they rely on complex trust deeds to "track" the gold price — and they fail to give you any real physical ownership.

So many ways to buy gold! And so many ways to pay more than you need to get less than you want.

How the Professional Gold Market Works

Traders in the professional gold market don't put up with complex trust deeds, of course. Nor do they suffer wide spreads, fat commissions or high storage fees.

This exclusive club only deals in what are known as "Good Delivery" gold bars. Warranted to be 99.5% pure gold, and cast by market-approved refiners, these 400-ounce bars of solid gold bullion are all that professional gold dealers want.

Weight and purity both come without question, so the "spread" between prices to buy and prices to sell is cut to a fraction of what you'll pay a gold-coin dealer.

These big wholesale gold bars, in short, offer you big wholesale savings.

If you're not trading Good Delivery gold bars, you're also locked out of the ultra-secure vaults where professional traders keep their gold. Deep below ground, these market-approved facilities are the safest places on earth for privately-owned gold.

That's why annual storage fees — with insurance included — run to 0.12% or less.

But trying to put just one big bar of gold into secure storage won't be enough, however. Professional vault operators demand a minimum holding of 15 large bars or more — and that would now cost you $6.03 million at today's prices.

A Break-Through for Private Investors

How can you get in? BullionVault now makes these big bars of professional gold available to private investors around the world.

As ever, buying wholesale is much cheaper than paying retail. And you can start with as little as one gram of gold today — for free — by registering here...

Use the simple, straightforward order board at BullionVault today, and you can buy and sell Good Delivery gold instantly with no risk of default.

The spread between prices to buy and prices to sell regularly runs to just 0.3% and below. And the gold you buy at BullionVault belongs to you — and you alone — the very moment you deal.

How does it work? Because all BullionVault gold is already safe & secure inside professional gold storage, there's no shipping & no delivery costs.

Only ownership changes hands, and only ever in return for cleared cash funds. There's no credit and no leverage at BullionVault.

The Safest Way to Own Real Gold Bullion

Your total dealing costs will be up to 80% lower than buying gold coins. Storing your gold in our secure, market-approved vaults will then cost less than one-third the fees of using an exchange-traded gold fund (ETF).

You also get to choose where to store your gold, selecting from our secure, market-approved gold vaults in your choice of New York, London or Zurich, Switzerland.

Remember — all deals at BullionVault are settled with gold that's already safe, inside the vault. So you face no risk of default.

The very instant you buy, your gold belongs to you — outright, in your name alone. And as it's your property, your gold remains safe from the financial performance of BullionVault, too.

No one can use your gold to repay their debts. We simply look after it for you, saving you money and hassle, in return for a small annual fee of 0.12% per year (minimum $4 per month).

Start Today with This Free Gram in Zurich

BullionVault's quiet revolution in the global gold market is fast-gathering pace — and it's already been featured by the Financial Times, Stern magazine in Germany, CNBC, Bloomberg News, and many other highly-respected news sources.

You can join this service today at no cost to yourself. Simply register here for a free gram of gold, stored on your behalf in Zurich, Switzerland.

Register now, and you can then sell this gram...buy it back...and sell it again to test-drive the BullionVault service without risking one penny of your own money.

Opening a Risk-Free Trading Account will put you under no obligation to buy gold, and no salesman will call.

Nor will we spam, rent or abuse your email address in any way.

If you find that you like the safety, simplicity, and low prices that BullionVault offers, then simply follow the instructions online to fund your account and start investing in gold.

Because buying gold doesn't need to be hard — and it need not be expensive.

Trend Analysis
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Will Silver Bounce Back Before Christmas?

Silver Spot Daily Chart

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I'm looking at the daily chart here, December the 15th on our 349th day of the year with only 16 more to go before we take silver into 2010.

Now, looking at the daily chart, I must honestly confess, I've seen better. Yes, at December the 11th we've hit a new 3 week low of $16.91. Yes, we have been trading down from our high of $19.45 which was put on the boards at December the 2nd and have traded down from then. Yes, we are trading below our Moving Averages.

However, to me, that only shows that we could be very near a turning point which does not mean I'm indicating a bottom here. Don't get me wrong, what I'm saying is, the market could find a bottom here. Like me, others look at the same charts and find the same lines, resistances, supports, pivot points, 8 year cycles, 12 year cycles,... And to me, unless I fail at drawing computer generated straight lines in a...well...straight line...then the chart is telling me we could indeed be at such a point.

So, when I say, NO, I'm not indicating a bottom, I'm also saying, either we go up from here or we break the trend line. So, that still leaves us both options.

Which do I favor or rather think more likely to happen from here?

Well, personally and chart wise I'd say we very well could go up from here. So my guess is there will surely be many investors who will take the figuratively speaking plunge into a silver long investment. When some do, that will cause a ripple and more will follow. It is the way of the market.

I'm already hearing about March 2010 silver prices going as high as $22.00. So, already the market is looking at way higher prices than what we are now looking at.

So,...is a $22.00 silver price in March 2010 realistic?

Well, the answer to that question would be...PRETTY MUCH YEA!

Like gold, silver CAN, HAS and WILL again in the near future perform like it seems there is nothing holding it back. Just take a look at the beginning of September when gold started moving away from the $1000 level, silver was trading at September the 1st with a low of $14.62 moving all the way up to September the 17th to finish off with a high of $17.65. At that very same time gold had only made a high of $1024.

Now, I'm sure not all of my readers are math geniuses but I think you'd have to agree that getting from $14.62 to $17.65 is more of an increase than getting from $1000 to $1024? I think silver made about a 18% gain while gold had to settle for a mere 3% gain.

So, yes, I like the shiny gold, I admit! And yes, it is more precious but for my normal investments, like shares and the junior market I prefer the leverage I get in silver over gold.

It's just personal preference I suppose.

So, to continue with the chart and my motivation for my comments, well, you see, first and foremost if we break $17.00 from here...and with the emphasis on here...then I really don't know where this has to go, daily then. Only to say that from here on down and below $17.00 would be Christmas Silver Shopping Season.

MACD looks to be heading back up and the histogram already is showing signs of starting to decline back to zero and hopefully above the center line again. Now, it is too early to tell but it is on the chart so, the downward momentum has definitely decreased. Whether this holds I honestly don't know but the latest about the rising wholesale prices and the inflation fears will put an additional level of support under gold and silver?

To end my daily chart, plain and simple, there is more support to be found around these prices than there is resistance. Like electricity, silver will go the way of least resistance...that in my opinion is UPWARDS!

Silver Spot Weekly Chart

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On to the weekly then, well for one, there is the $16.00 support level which is a very nice thing to have. Since, earlier it was a resistance, now that we are steadily trading above that level it will act as support like it has in the past.

Why bring up the $16.00? Just to show that if silver does manage to break the trend line then $16.00 is the number I'm looking at to look for a bounce back up. Nothing wrong with being prepared either way,...is there?

For now, I will remain looking up and not down! We are still trading upwards and still in a clearly definable up trend. We are also still trading in our trend channel all be it that we are now at the bottom of our lower trend line.

Most important thing is, we are holding as you've seen daily and weekly.

So, not much more I can say here. We need to look for confirmation of this thing wanting to go higher from here. Silver could trade sideways for a bit longer before heading back up. Anything above $17.00 is still bullish, getting to far below $17.00 would be bearish and should put investors in alert mode.

So, to answer the question, will silver bounce back before Christmas? Well, it is already sorta doing that. Only thing left to do from here is get back to our earlier high of $19.45 and leave the under $19.00 zone behind us and in thus doing so creating a bottom and support at $19.00.

Lets take this one step at a time though, that means, daily, lets get back above $18.14 first and then look again.

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Five Myths of the Gold Market Exposed

LOOKING to buy gold today?

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"Gold rose 600% in the 1970s," says Jim Rogers, world-famous commodities trader and best-selling author of Adventure Capitalist.

"Then gold went down nearly every month for two years.

"Most people gave up — but then it went up another 850%."

Gold pulled back again after a huge surge in early 2008. Now it's trading more than 10% below the all-time record it set versus the US Dollar above $1,000 an ounce. It's slipped back against the Euro and Pound Sterling, too.

But that's simply "what happens in bull markets," as Jim Rogers says. And joining this bull market now could prove very rewarding if the Dollar, Euro and Pound all continue to slide against bullion.

Why not find out for yourself, starting for free today?

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Very few investors or savers own gold outright today. Fewer still hold gold offshore in professional storage. And accepting this gram of gold today won't put you under any obligation to buy or sell in the future.

No salesman will call. Nor will BullionVault ever rent, sell or abuse your email address.

BullionVault simply makes buying gold and selling it easy. No hidden charges, plus very tight spreads, make it the most cost-effective route to owning physical gold bullion for private investment.

That's why London's Mail on Sunday featured its gold-dealing service last summer. BullionVault has been reviewed by Der Spiegel and Capital magazines in Germany. Britain's leading financial newspaper, the Financial Times recently ran a full-page interview with Paul Tustain, the founder and director.

It confirmed that BullionVault "dramatically" cuts the costs of private gold ownership.

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BullionVault - Buying Gold online

It used to be very difficult for private individuals to find a simple, safe and cost-effective way of buying, storing, and then selling gold.

The main problem was the sheer size of the investment you needed to make to access the best prices - and there were extra complications with integrity and storage too.

Direct access to the very best prices

• BullionVault.com changes all this. It enables people from all over the world to own professional market gold and keep it in any quantity in officially recognized bullion vaults in London (UK), New York (USA), or Zurich (Switzerland).
• All BullionVault gold is held in Good Delivery form. So when you come to sell, your buyer is able to trust the purity and weight of your gold, which is guaranteed by BullionVault itself because we know that you never had the chance to corrupt it.
• So the dealing spread is typically 0.4%, about one-tenth of the equivalent cost charged to private customers for gold coins and small bars.
• You can buy just a small portion of a 400-ounce bar. You can trade on-line in increments as small as 1 gram - currently about $30.
• BullionVault is not a unit trust / mutual. There is no 5% front end subscription load. When buying gold you pay a commission whose maximum rate is 0.8%, falling progressively when you invest above $30,000 to the spectacularly low rate of 0.02%.
• Storage charges are down to wholesale rates of 0.12% pa ($4 per month minimum) with insurance included. That's less than a tenth of the storage fees charged by retail banks, and less than one-third the annual fees charged by typical exchange-traded gold funds (ETFs).
• BullionVault customers also save money because they deal directly with each other, willing seller to willing buyer, by using our order board.
• You make a further big saving at settlement time too. You don't have to arrange for expensive armoured courier bullion collections.

BullionVault Registration

To register go to the main page of BullionVault. On it you have to enter your own user name. I will use a fictional user name to go through these steps.

BullionVault Registration Form

As you can see, I've entered my details, the user name I want to use, my own email address and a decent password. Next you have type over the three random numbers or letters that are generated. That is done to make sure it is a real person doing the registration and not a computer program. Last, you need to agree with the terms and conditions and you can submit the form.

Registration Completed

After clicking submit you will be brought to this screen confirming you your account was successfully created. Congratulations! You have made your first steps to becoming an actual gold trader. Now click on login to enter your details.

BullionVault Login

Fill in your user name and password.

BullionVault Account Balance

After securely logging in to BullionVault you will be taken to the Account Balance screen from which you can see you current balance in the currency in which you made the deposit of course. From this screen you can pretty much do everything from watching the prices, charts, buy gold, sell gold, deposit funds and basically everything one needs to trade gold.

BullionVault Markets

Clicking on the markets button brings you on the screen where you buy or sell gold. It shows the best bids and the best offers. Trading gold was never this easy. Those interested in doing a bit of trading and not knowing how then I suggest checking out BullionVault. They also have a pretty detailed help page and a help demo which guides you through everything.